Here’s what the NREL did: They divided the number of installs in each region since 1999 by population and then ranked them. Fresno came out first with 182.92 megawatts per person followed by the Phoenix, Las Vegas and Sacramento metro areas.

Johnson told 1BOG that lots of large scale solar projects have been installed in the Fresno metro area and that “when this is combined with Fresno’s relatively small population (just over a million), strong solar resources, proximity to thriving and mature solar economies, and strong state policy, it stands to reason that Fresno would be near the top of this list.”